[Early Self-Published Computer Textboook]: The Downeast PC Course (Release 1.1)

First edition. Cover art by Todd Greenquist. Quarto. [11 preface and table of contents], 566, [11 index and diskette order form] pp. Illustrated with black and white screen captures. Comb-bound with laminated covers. Some neat highlighting in the first 100pp., six comb rings broken or missing, modest wear, very good and sound. A large, early PC textbook written by a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maine (where he was founding chair), and inspired by his Computer Science 100 class. According to his website, Markowsky has published over 120 journal papers, book chapters, book reviews and conference papers on various aspects of Computer Science and Mathematics. He has also written or edited 15 books and reports on various aspects of computing, including *A Comprehensive Guide to the IBM Personal Computer* (Prentice-Hall, 1984). Self-published in three editions, a completely revised edition of this book was published by McGraw-Hill in 1990. *OCLC* seems to locate a single copy of the revised McGraw-Hill edition, in a Bulgarian University library, but we could locate no copies of this self-published first edition. A large, early, self-published PC textbook by a noted computer scientist.…